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A documentary following ten politicans' campaigning efforts during the 2017 German national parliament election.

Portraits and fragmented views of Paris intertwine.

Time has forgotten Belmont, population zero. Even a red light can’t halt the train that sees no need to stop there.

What does a world that respects Indigenous peoples look like, that's working towards ending racism, colonialism, and other intersecting oppression on a global scale?

In the film, we accompany the archaeologist and his friend and looter Petro to several excavation sites. These excursions take us to a time between the future and the past, where despair over history lost forever meets the visit of aliens in our prehistory.

Social hotspots can be found everywhere. Recognizing this, rapper Carlos Zamora started his project Rapflektion in Braunschweig and the surrounding area, to educate teenagers to communicate responsibly, respectfully and without violence through rap. For the past seven years he has been travelling to Latin American countries known for their drug cartels and violence. Other than church initiatives, Zamora's rap workshops for disadvantaged youth are frequently the only projects available for these teenagers.

Hello again, tristesse!

Collection of YouTube videos of young people, who send messages to their future selves.

The team of the Klappe-Auf! Short Film Festival has to organize the upcoming festival edition. Confronted with certain problems they have to find a cinema and bring the films on the screen.

To match the ideal of beauty, the human back has to be straight and exhibit strength. It’s the largest part of the body and makes us stand erect. “Shapes” pays homage to different kinds of backs: those marked by scars, curvatures, deformations, deviant from our norm.

September 11, 2001 devastated the lives of countless people and changed the world. Two planes hijacked by supporters of the Islamist terrorist network al-Qaeda crashed into the towers of New York's World Trade Center. A third plane flew into the Pentagon, another was crashed in Pennsylvania. Almost 3,000 people have to die. Contemporary witnesses recount the experiences of September 11th from their perspective.

In 2017, China loaned the two panda bears Meng Meng and Jiao Qing to the Berlin Zoo. However, this for-profit attraction didn't go as planned: Meng Meng, the female panda, will only walk backwards. Kerstin Honeit's video places Meng Meng's protest in a series with other performances of protesting bodies, in which grievances are made visible in public.

Two young female students on a camping trip discover, in an emotional chaos, that their perception of friendship is very different.

After an alien invasion, the Albanian port city of Durrës is the starting point for the search for Lilith, the mother of all human existence. From here, an associative travel diary filmed on 16mm unfolds from fragmentary explorations of places and observations of young people to the witty and poetic science fiction film.

A young girl packs her things. Without a word, she leaves her parents' holiday home. On a country road a car approaches: a young man. He takes her with him. They drive along the Nordic coast. Surrounded by the slight noise of wind and rain, and the sound of tires on concrete. In sight the open soil, faint dunes, waves breaking at the shore. Black. From the backseat the girl sees the young man: He gets into his car, he drives off.

How many people will be forced to leave their homes by 2050? While the figure divides the scientific community, these climate refugees could well number in the millions. This is one of the questions this film seeks to answer, as it takes us from the Sahel to Siberia, via Indonesia.

In a few billion years, the sun will burn out. That's enough time to leave the inhospitable places on Earth. The flight ends with a crash in paradise, which the manufacturer has given an expiration date. The search for an angel produces a lot of stardust. Stardust is from my series of video diaries. The idea for it came to me when I was filming a sunset and heard the composer Arvo Pärt in an interview. When asked about the idea of angels, he replied slowly and gently: "It's not an idea, it's reality that surrounds us."

A pre-apocalyptic pastel daydream. We aren’t relaxed, we aren’t carefree, we’re pathologically unable to care.

What happens when we reverse the logic of CCTV cameras? The Panopticon model—Foucault's sketch of a modern surveillance society in which everyone disciplines themselves—is not acceptable? Cameras record: a platform, our stage.

This paper deals with issues related to the use of language(s) in a globalized and highly economicized working world. From the personal perspective of a cultural worker, it highlights the privileges required to make oneself understood in an industry dominated by a few languages. In direct interpersonal contact, nonverbal communication also seems to work well.

Videos of people in jeans playing with mud and water are posted on YouTube. Men in Jeans deals with this niche on the internet, which mixes advertising myths, ideals of masculinity, and romanticized impressions of nature, exaggerating them and subtly revealing their absurdity.

A father and his daughter on a typical camping holiday, but something isn't right.

Amazon river dolphins are endangered, yet we know too little about the animals. A transnational research project is now set to change this.